SuperBee
7146 posts
Jul 25, 2025
1:49 AM
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My band has a Facebook page.
I’m very slack about posting anything on it.
I’m trying to distance myself from Facebook but that’s another story.
I check into Facebook maybe every other day. I deleted the app and I think that’s helping. Helping me keep my nose out of Facebook I mean.
Just now I had a look at Facebook and saw something that indicated maybe there was something to see on the band page, so I went there.
Seems we have a new follower. That’s nice. It happens from time to time. We played a street party recently so maybe someone saw us for the first time.
But hang on a moment; 509 followers?
I know it’s not really a lot, but last time I looked it was fewer than half that number, and it’s been a very slow build from 150 to 250 over several years. I don’t work on promotion at all really. We just play gigs as they arise, maybe 7-8 a year at this stage.
So how has that number of followers doubled in a couple of months after several years of virtual stagnation?
I looked a bit closer at the profiles of followers.
I’m not totally ruling out the possibility that a Tasmanian band that plays covers of Chicago Blues classics could have a minor following in Bangladesh, but I find it a little surprising if you know what I mean.
I think we’ve possibly been picked up by a bot farm.
Or maybe I should start planning some gigs in Dhaka.
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nacoran
10460 posts
Jul 26, 2025
12:04 PM
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The weirdness of the digital world. Probably trying to make it so it looks like their profiles are legit?
The algorithm can be weird though. One 'cool' person follows you, and people start seeing your posts...
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bandini
34 posts
Jul 26, 2025
3:04 PM
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I only recently realized that a great deal of what I was seeing on FB - we're talking posts, profiles, videos - is fake/AI.
This is increasingly the case on all social media as far as I can tell. If you're wondering why interacting online increasingly feels somewhat hollow and unsatisfying, it might be your intuition telling you something the eyes and brain can be fooled by.
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SuperBee
7148 posts
Aug 05, 2025
6:23 AM
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Received a notification that someone has shared one of our reels.
Curious, I looked to see what had been shared.
Turned out to be a video originally posted in November 2016.
Shared by an account which is ostensibly a guy who is an airline pilot based in Réunion and finds time to post about 100 things a day which don’t have any obvious connecting theme. Nothing about his family, friends, pets or personal life.
I watched the video with a kind of fascinated cringe. It’s hardly even the same band; different drummer, different guitarist, different vocals. I still perform the song but I’m the vocalist now.
I can hear in the video that I was struggling a bit. It’s from a time when I was working up 3-4 songs every week. Maybe I play it just as poorly now but probably in a different way.
Thanks, robot account. I would have needed to scroll a long time to find that piece of stuff I never wanted to see again.
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